A Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) DRE-Binding Transcription Factor Gene, FeDREB1, Enhances Freezing and Drought Tolerance of Transgenic Arabidopsis

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1510-1525

  Fang, Zhengwu ^a,b   Zhang, Xiaohong ^a   Gao, Jinfeng ^a   Wang, Pengke ^a   Xu, Xiaoyu ^a   Liu, Zhixiong ^b   Shen, Shihua ^c   Feng, Baili ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Abscisic acid (ABA); Buckwheat; CBF DREB; Freezing and drought tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940613055     PISSN: 07359640     EISSN: 15729818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-015-0851-4     Document Type: Article

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